Damages in Virginia Tech cases reduced to $100K/family 
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Published: June 26, 2012
ROCKY MOUNT — A judge has upheld a jury's negligence verdict against the state from the 2007 mass killings at Virginia Tech, but has sharply reduced damages awarded to two families.
According to media reports, Franklin County Circuit Judge William Alexander II on Wednesday reduced the jury's damages awarded to each family to $100,000, the statutory ...
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